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  1. Re:Stirling Engines on IBM Doubles CPU Cooling With Simple Change · · Score: 1

    Computer users aren't as bad as audiophools.

    Yet.

  2. Re:Link? on Voters Vote Yes, County Says No · · Score: 1

    However, the amendment does say a well-regulated militia, and an unorganized militia may not be considered well-regulated by a court.

  3. Re:Happens all the time on Voters Vote Yes, County Says No · · Score: 1

    And sometimes you get morons in the farking government who use their powers to restrict minority rights. See all the noise about, yes, gay marriage from no less that our Fuckwit-in-Chief[1] and his social-conservative buddies in Congress. Further in the past, laws to restrict rights of blacks and to prevent inter-racial marriages.

    If social conservatives and authoritarians want to abuse their powers, it's only a bit harder to do it in a republic vs. mob rule.

    [1] I'm not aware of a word or phrase strong enough for what he &co. actually /are/, so I have to rely on mere approximations like that. Suggestions gladly accepted.

  4. Re:Link? on Voters Vote Yes, County Says No · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Yes, and there are no more militias, outside of survivalists and the like.

    There's the National Guard, which is what the state militias officially became. But now they're effectively under the control of the federal government, since they're being sent to Iraq, and are basically just another government armed service.

    I don't want to say that we're screwed if that interpretation of the 2nd Amendment gains sway, but...

  5. Re:640k remark on Bill Gates Talk From 1989 Surfaces · · Score: 1

    There's a hardware way that's been around for ages as well. x86 chips since at least the P3 have been able to address 36 GB of RAM, essentially by paging. If XP can't see 8 GB, that's a software limitation.

  6. Re:Newbie Question on Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) Beta Released · · Score: 1

    Yes. I updated my laptop to Feisty a couple days ago and it's worked flawlessly, likewise on my home box and my work PC.

    The only issue I noticed was that Ubuntu's version of slrn has removed some unneeded commands from .slrnrc, but that was easily fixed.

  7. Re:new name, please! on Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) Beta Released · · Score: 1

    or prophets


    Name your distro release "Mal-2" or "Omar Ravenhurst", and I might have a look at it.
  8. Re:Been running it on Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) Beta Released · · Score: 1

    I must say in the past I was a big Ubuntu hater as I am part of another Linux distro's admin staff


    You're pretty young, then? Early twenties?
  9. Re:I'm surprised. on Surprise, Windows Listed as Most Secure OS · · Score: 1

    PHBs.

  10. Re:I don't get it on RIAA Balks At Complying With Document Order · · Score: 4, Informative

    A famous example of a court's order going unenforced is the US Supreme Court case Worcester v. Georgia.

  11. Re:Poetry too on Dungeons & Dragons and IT · · Score: 1
    Don't forget limericks.

    When he tried to inject his huge whanger
    A young man aroused his girl's anger.
            As they strove in the dark
            She was heard to remark,
    "What you need is a zeppelin hangar."
    source: fortunes-off
  12. Re:Don't Bother on Multi-Threaded Programming Without the Pain · · Score: 3, Funny

    99.99% of the time
    ...people who use that phrase don't know what they're talking about, and especially don't grok statistics.
  13. Re:It's a race on IBM Asks Court To Declare Linux Non-Infringing · · Score: 1


    But what?
    </voice>

  14. Re:Bull on Why Next-Gen Titles Cost $60 · · Score: 1

    OK, show your research proving this. You have research, don't you?

  15. Re:Inflation on Why Next-Gen Titles Cost $60 · · Score: 1

    In their cases, that was because they were large games that required lots of ROM, and ROM was expensive.

  16. Re:Debian is dead on Ian Murdock: Debian "Missing a Big Opportunity" · · Score: 1

    You want Ubuntu 6.06.1 server. Stable, gets only bugfixes, you can buy support, and will be supported for IIRC 5 years after release.

    Your criticisms are more valid for desktop releases like 6.10.

  17. Re:my experiences on a laptop on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn - Desktop Linux Matured · · Score: 1

    I take it you don't have a USB stick and your other machine doesn't have a CD burner. Those are the trivial ways to transport drivers between machines.

  18. Message from Microsoft on Vista Can Run Without Activation for a Year · · Score: 1

    Don't forget to pay your $399 licensing fee, you cock-smoking teabaggers.

  19. Re:Yawn on Gnome 2.18 Released · · Score: 1

    Fuckin' Slashdot.


    Better not. Do you have any idea what disease(s) you might get?

    You could get a Beowulf cluster of viruses.
  20. Re:The real story on Using Google Earth to See Destruction · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's not efficient, is it? It wasn't in the 1940s when Germany was producing ersatz low-quality oils and fuel from coal.

    Then there's the environmental impact of coal strip-mining. Even deep mines will have problems with sinkholes and where to put the tailings. The stuff's awful when burned, much dirtier than even diesel fuel, unless you gasify it first.

  21. Re:Now, where's XP Service Pack 3?? on Microsoft Quietly Releases Windows 2003 SP2 · · Score: 1

    That doesn't help. WSUS does two things: reduce your site's bandwidth usage (since you've got a local mirror) and let you control which patches are installed on client boxen, including on a per-box or per-group basis.

  22. Re:This is one of the reasons I prefer Debian. on Microsoft Quietly Releases Windows 2003 SP2 · · Score: 1

    O RLY? What patches install the security center, improved firewall, and IE6 SP2 in Windows XP SP1?

    I'm waiting for some wit to post links to ZoneAlarm and the like.

  23. Re:ninja Ballmer on Microsoft Quietly Releases Windows 2003 SP2 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Squirt shurikens from /where/?

  24. Re:Romanization as DNS lingua franca on International URLs Pass First Test · · Score: 2, Interesting

    For some languages, like Arabic, there is no one standard for romanization. A trivial example is Qu'ran/Koran.

  25. Re:I'll tell you about this one guy on How Open Source Projects Survive Poisonous People · · Score: 1

    You haven't banned him because...?